The interview here was used to raise awareness of /blak/.
It was the first time I began to open up about my project.
Please excuse the quality (it's a little old..:))
It was the first time I began to open up about my project.
Please excuse the quality (it's a little old..:))
Interview Transcript. (If you can't understand everything, view the words below)
Interviewer: So what is it you’re working on?
FH: Well…it started out as an Independent study project for English. It became something more after a while….um..I had many ideas and luckily I had the opportunity to have a class to get them out there.
Interviewer: Okay. How did you come up with this idea?
FH: Well actually. 10 years ago I wanted to have a hero or a superhero. One who actually went around and fight white supremacists groups and things like that. But after a while the idea eventually changed and grew more into something else. I decided to add characters to it and tried to put it into a book-like format. The idea of a graphic novel is still new to many people in this country even though in Europe and Asia they’re pretty popular. It’s kind of like a comic book. But the themes are more mature and involve more complex subject matter.
Interviewer: Ok. Sounds good. What did you see <INCOMPREHENDABLE> with your work?
FH: At first….um..it was a bunch of ideas and once I started with the artwork, began to see more and more what this could become. I was able to see better how my ideas were being expressed visually through what I was putting down on paper..l..um it’s a pretty tedious process where you draw something…First I map it out and see how I want that image to be arranged. On a piece of paper I draw characters and I color those characters, cut them out and paste them on poster board that I arrange and frame and paint as well. And then once I do that, I put it together and paint more and then I put words around it pretty much.
Interviewer: Sounds like a very different process
FH: Yes it can be a pain some time
Interviewer: Ah..the other thing that you wanted to see in this work?
FH: Ah….actually there are plenty of things. I wanted to create something artistically and produce something that would grab people’s attention. And once I grab their attention, hopefully they will be more enthralled with the words, what the characters symbolize and the storyline, characters, subjects and themes. You know it tends to start off as sort of book that plays on race and race issues, but it’s more than that. The more in-depth you get into the book, the more you realize the book is just about people in general and what makes them tick and do what they do.
Interview: So what would you like to accomplish with this work?
FH: Well…I plan to put it together; it was a project for school. I kind of have bigger plans for it. I plan to compile me work into one book form and try to publish that. I believe there are a lot of strong messages in the work that people can learn from. I really just want to get that out so people can see these messages and learn from them and grow from them. I mean….like I said it teaches a lot about people and a lot about positivity and negativity and the about the whole world in general. My work doesn’t let you forget there is something else going on somewhere besides what you are looking at. There’s always this big picture in view. I worked really hard to try to make that so. A lot of other novels tend to be stories in themselves. Each book is a different story with different characters. This work tries to give you the big picture and I try to keep that in view in as many scenes as I can.
Interviewer: Thank you
FH: No problem. Thank you.
FH: Well…it started out as an Independent study project for English. It became something more after a while….um..I had many ideas and luckily I had the opportunity to have a class to get them out there.
Interviewer: Okay. How did you come up with this idea?
FH: Well actually. 10 years ago I wanted to have a hero or a superhero. One who actually went around and fight white supremacists groups and things like that. But after a while the idea eventually changed and grew more into something else. I decided to add characters to it and tried to put it into a book-like format. The idea of a graphic novel is still new to many people in this country even though in Europe and Asia they’re pretty popular. It’s kind of like a comic book. But the themes are more mature and involve more complex subject matter.
Interviewer: Ok. Sounds good. What did you see <INCOMPREHENDABLE> with your work?
FH: At first….um..it was a bunch of ideas and once I started with the artwork, began to see more and more what this could become. I was able to see better how my ideas were being expressed visually through what I was putting down on paper..l..um it’s a pretty tedious process where you draw something…First I map it out and see how I want that image to be arranged. On a piece of paper I draw characters and I color those characters, cut them out and paste them on poster board that I arrange and frame and paint as well. And then once I do that, I put it together and paint more and then I put words around it pretty much.
Interviewer: Sounds like a very different process
FH: Yes it can be a pain some time
Interviewer: Ah..the other thing that you wanted to see in this work?
FH: Ah….actually there are plenty of things. I wanted to create something artistically and produce something that would grab people’s attention. And once I grab their attention, hopefully they will be more enthralled with the words, what the characters symbolize and the storyline, characters, subjects and themes. You know it tends to start off as sort of book that plays on race and race issues, but it’s more than that. The more in-depth you get into the book, the more you realize the book is just about people in general and what makes them tick and do what they do.
Interview: So what would you like to accomplish with this work?
FH: Well…I plan to put it together; it was a project for school. I kind of have bigger plans for it. I plan to compile me work into one book form and try to publish that. I believe there are a lot of strong messages in the work that people can learn from. I really just want to get that out so people can see these messages and learn from them and grow from them. I mean….like I said it teaches a lot about people and a lot about positivity and negativity and the about the whole world in general. My work doesn’t let you forget there is something else going on somewhere besides what you are looking at. There’s always this big picture in view. I worked really hard to try to make that so. A lot of other novels tend to be stories in themselves. Each book is a different story with different characters. This work tries to give you the big picture and I try to keep that in view in as many scenes as I can.
Interviewer: Thank you
FH: No problem. Thank you.